D.C.-area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo have now been named as suspects in a Tacoma, Wash., killing of a 21-year-old woman. The sniper suspects were charged with murder in Virginia and Maryland after a three-week series of attacks which killed 10 people and wounded three. A student flunking out of nursing school started shooting in a class Oct. 28 at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He killed three of his professors and then himself. A jury in Kansas is deliberating in the case of a man accused of murdering three women and stuffing the bodies of two of them in 85-gallon barrels on his property. John Robertson, 58, is accused of trolling the Internet looking for victims. Nov. 5 is Election Day in America. Democrats hold leads of 2 to 20 percentage points in key states, such as Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Paul Wellstone, a senator from Minnesota, died Oct. 26 in a plane crash. Minnesota Democrats are asking Walter Mondale to run for his place in the Nov. 5 election. Mondale ran for the U.S. presidency in 1984, with Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Serious and violent crime in the United States increased last year, rising 2.1 percent across the country and 0.2 percent in Ohio, according to the Uniform Crime Report. Police arrested two Zanesville men the week of Oct. 21 in a drug bust in Muskingum County. Officers sezied nearly two kilos of powder cocaine and 145 grams of marijuana. The drugs have a street value of $100,000. Actress Winona Ryder is on trial on charges of shoplifting more than $5,000 of designer hats and other merchandise at a Saks Fifth Avenue store. Actor Robert Blake's attorney resigned because the actor has agreed to give a jailhouse interview to ABC. Blake is charged with murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, last year. Prosecutors likely will seek the death penalty against a Sallisaw teenager arrested after an Oct. 26 shooting spree that left two dead and eight wounded. Daniel Hawke Fears, 18, was charged Oct. 30 with two counts of first-degree murder and other criminal charges are being considered. Worries about jobs and a possible U.S. attack on Iraq pummeled consumer confidence to its lowest level in nine years in October, a report said Oct. 29. The Anaheim Angels won the World Series.
A U.S. diplomat was murdered Monday in the capital of Jordan. Laurence Foley, 60, a senior administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, was shot eight times. He was the first U.S. diplomat to die in the line of duty since 1998, when al-Qaeda terrorists blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Thirty more detainees have been brought to Guantanamo Bay prison, Cuba. Four other detainees were recently released.. A storm with wind gusts of more than 100 mph battered Europe Monday, killing at least 34 people. Wind damage to buildings, electricity supplies, and infrastructure has been estimated at $80 million. Indonesian police have retained a radical Muslim cleric for questioning about terrorist attacks. Police want to ask Abu Bakar Bashir, 64, about a series of church bombings, about an alleged plot to kill Indonesia's president, and about a militant Islamic group that has been linked to al-Qaeda. Israel says it has arrested 175 would-be suicide bombers. Mount Etna erupted Monday, spewing ash that traveled as far as North Africa. About 50 Chechnyan rebels held over 800 people hostage in a Moscow theater last week until officials conducted a weekend raid in which 118 hostages were killed. All but two of the hostages that died were killed by poison gas which Russian officials pumped into the theater to put the rebels to sleep so that police could raid the building.
Leftist Luiz Inacio da Silva was elected president of Brazil this week.
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